Ripple’s managing director for South Asia talks about “high street banks” being interested in Ripple

The recent announcement by Ripple noted that they had partnered with over 200 banks and Financial Institutions [FIs] around the world and that 100 of these customers were signed within 2018. Navin Gupta mentioned how signing the first 100 partners took over two years as banks and FIs were hesitant about DLT and cryptocurrencies.In addition, Gupta mentioned how 2019 would be a much favorable year as compared to the previous years and also said that there were clear “regulatory signals” in ASEAN such as Thailand, Philippines and Singapore moving ahead on digital assets.The National Bank of Abu Dhabi [NBAD] was the first bank in the Middle East to sign on to RippleNet in February 2018 and FIs like Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait and BFC Bahrain are also part of RippleNet.